ControlUp News
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ControlUp nabs $100M to monitor and improve desktop computing performance across disparate work environments
ControlUp, a startup that provides IT teams with tools to monitor and improve desktop performance in remote and hybrid work environments, has raised $100 million in a funding round. The companys customer base includes top health insurance and healthcare companies, as well as global telecoms carriers. ControlUps revenues grew 50% in the past year, with enterprise accounts growing 67%. The funding will be used to invest in its tools and expand its business. ControlUps solution involves deploying AI-powered agents on users computers to monitor and remediate performance issues. The company emphasizes privacy and only monitors work-related assets. With the rise of remote and hybrid work, investors are looking for opportunities to support startups that improve the digital employee experience.
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ControlUp Acquires Avacee
ControlUp has announced its acquisition of Avacee, a cloud-first platform for managing systems and devices. The acquisition will enable ControlUp to enhance its self-healing Digital Experience Monitoring and Optimization platform by identifying and resolving performance issues before they impact employee productivity. This is particularly important as remote working becomes more prevalent. ControlUps recent $27M Series C funding round supports this acquisition. The combination of ControlUp and Avacee technologies will provide high availability, reliability, and performance for remote collaboration. The Avacee team will join ControlUp, and a new R&D center will be established in the U.S.
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ControlUp announces $27M Funding, Led by JVP and K1, After a Breakthrough 2020
ControlUp, a user experience optimization platform, has completed a $27 million Series C round of financing led by JVP and K1 Investment Management. The funding brings the total funding for ControlUp to $40 million and will enable the company to expand its platform and market presence to monitor and optimize user experience for the growth in Work-From-Home deployments. ControlUp has supported business continuity for thousands of enterprises and has expanded its client roster to include B2C and B2B brands. The company has also grown its employee base by more than 50% in 2020. ControlUps AIOps platform provides organizations with an end-to-end view of their end-user computing environments.
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Israel-based ControlUp helps employees bring their office computers home
ControlUp, an Israel-based company that helps enterprises monitor and analyze virtual desktop solutions, is experiencing growth in demand, particularly from healthcare providers and hospitals. The companys software is deployed in Sheba Medical Center in Israel, where it has seen an increase in usership due to the COVID-19 crisis and the shift to telemedicine and remote work. ControlUps virtual desktop technology allows users to log into their office computers from anywhere with an internet connection, providing faster and more secure access to business applications. The company predicts a dramatic shift towards work from home scenarios in various sectors, including banking and government.
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ControlUp Announces ControlUp Console for VMware Cloud on AWS
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ControlUp Sets Industry Benchmark with First-Ever Logon Performance Analysis of a Quarter of a Billion Production Sessions
A research report by ControlUp reveals that employees can spend up to 18 hours per year waiting for their computers to log on. The report, which analyzed 238 million application and desktop logons, found that most companies experience a total wait time of 159 days per year. The study focused on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and application logon performance, particularly in healthcare organizations. It highlighted the impact of delays on employee productivity and provided guidance for IT decision makers on monitoring and improving IT environments. The report also emphasized the importance of logon performance in the healthcare sector, where quick and secure access to medical applications and data is crucial. ControlUp is a leading provider of ITOps analytics and management solutions.
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ControlUp 4.1-The Master Systems Display for your Virtual Environment
The article discusses ControlUp, a monitoring and management platform designed for multi-user environments. ControlUp provides a comprehensive view of system status and metrics, allowing administrators to quickly identify and troubleshoot performance issues. It is an agent-based monitoring system that collects metrics from hosts or virtual machines, including CPU and RAM usage, logged-in user details, and session statistics. ControlUp also offers configuration comparison and management features, allowing administrators to make changes across multiple servers in one batch. While ControlUp does not store historical metrics in a database, it can export monitoring data for trending analysis. Overall, ControlUp provides immediate operational visibility and can complement other monitoring systems for long-term historical analysis.
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ChannelClould Selects ControlUp to Optimize on Demand Application Hosting and Enhance Citrix/RDS Real-time Management and Monitoring
ChannelCloud has selected ControlUp to optimize performance for its on-demand application hosting and remote desktop services. ControlUp offers real-time performance monitoring and management capabilities, allowing ChannelCloud to quickly expand and maintain its services in response to growing partner and customer demand. ControlUp provides visibility to multiple layers in the datacenter and supports multi-tenant environments, enabling ChannelCloud to offer its private cloud integrators and partners unparalleled monitoring and management capabilities. ChannelCloud is an integrated cloud program that offers IT service providers the platform and training needed to transition to a more profitable business model.
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ControlUp Raises $10 Million Series B
ControlUp, a provider of an ITOps analytics and management platform, has raised $10 million in a Series B funding round led by K1 Investment Management and Jerusalem Venture Partners. This brings the companys total funding to $13.3 million. ControlUp plans to use the funds to continue innovating, growing its company, and expanding its client base worldwide. The company has achieved significant accomplishments in 2016, including the launch of ControlUp 6, joining the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance, and the launch of ControlUp Insights. ControlUp is headquartered in Silicon Valley with R&D in Israel.
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